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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: DRIVE MY CAR review
Description: In which the Mister joins me in reviewing DRIVE MY CAR (2021), which is currently streaming on HBO Max. Written and directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, with additional writing credits to Takamasa Oe and based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, this film tells the story of a man learning to carry on after the death of his wife. Yûsuke Kafuku (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a lauded stage actor and playwright who takes existing materials and refashions them as multilingual dramatic pieces. His wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima) is a writer for television with a proclivity that includes storytel...